From: Nick Shah (nshah@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Thu Jul 11 2002 - 03:12:27 GMT-3
Jeremy
Further to what everyone has already stated.. There is this OIR doco which
states whats possible and whats not. (yes, its too cisco-pro, and I agree
that 75xx's in practise are not good with OIR's)
but still.. check this out..
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/63/oir_17940.html
rgds
Nick
----- Original Message -----
From: "kym blair" <kymblair@hotmail.com>
To: <hbae@nyc.rr.com>; <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 3:27 PM
Subject: Re: 7507 RSP Install
> Jeremy,
>
> I vote with Hansang. I've "hot swapped" 7500 three times (7505, 7507, and
> 7513) and crashed the router two of those times; only succeeded once.
Since
> then, I allign the IOS on the new RSP on an off-line router, then shut
down
> production router, insert new RSP, and power up. Have had perfect success
> this way; downtime is less than 5 minutes. Ditto when adding interface
> modules on a 7500.
>
> By the way, I've had similar bad luck "hot swapping" Supervisors on
Catalyst
> 6509, but excellent luck with hot swapping interface modules.
>
> HTH, Kym
>
>
> >From: Hansang Bae <hbae@nyc.rr.com>
> >Reply-To: Hansang Bae <hbae@nyc.rr.com>
> >To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
> >Subject: Re: 7507 RSP Install
> >Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 17:30:19 -0400
> >
> >At 07:43 AM 7/10/2002 -0500, Wright, Jeremy wrote:
> > >i have a primary rsp running on my 7507. we have a 2nd one we are going
> >to
> > >install as a slave. is there any issues i need to be aware of putting
the
> > >rsp in "hot"? or do i need to plan on some down time? TIA
> >
> >
> >We had a lot of issues with trying to run slave RSPs. Admittedly, it
> >wasn't with the latest IOS revs but in the end, the redundant router was
> >deemed good enough.
> >
> >Also, 7500s just aren't very good with hot-swapping anything. I'd
schedule
> >some downtime and if you have a spare crash kit to play with, try it
there.
> >
> >Good luck!
> >
> >hsb
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